Australian Soccer: Must We Always Forget the Past?

It is a given that the broader Australian culture cares little for the positive memorialisation of soccer. Yet the game itself is not much better at asserting its own legitimacy or remembering its own belonging. Forgetting the game’s history seems, at times, to be an imperative for soccer authorities. The transitions between significant stages of the game’s history in Australia are moments in which deliberate erasure and voluntary amnesia have seemed to be vital strategies.

The rebadging of the game as soccer in the 1920s threw off the ‘British’ name in an attempt to both domesticate and internationalise Association football in Australia. Even though still heavily reliant on migration from Britain, an amateur and domestically Australian-Anglo-Celtic culture emerged from the English and Scottish roots.

After the Second World War the rise to dominance of the continental European migrant clubs (and a concomitant emergence of professionalism) enabled the forgetting of that pre-war culture. For many today, soccer in Australia only really started in the 1950s. And many of the ‘ethnic’ clubs are guilty of ‘failing’ to remember their own history of supplanting a previous culture. South Melbourne Hellas is a case in point. A complex history of mergers between Australian-Anglo, Jewish and Greek clubs is lost in the club’s contemporary Greek-Australian identity.

The most recent act of substantial and brutal forgetting came in 2004 with the establishment of the FFA and the A-League, led by Frank Lowy and underpinned by the Crawford Report which advocated substantial and important changes to the constitution and management of the game. A policy of not just forgetting but also rejecting the game’s past was adopted largely because the new soccer authorities believed in the unassailability of the dominant myths, ones that are still in need of dismantling.

In the perceived absence of a sustained and convincing counter-narrative of soccer’s centrality to Australian culture, history became a no-go zone. Indeed the rejection of history was manifested in a 2006 World Cup advertising campaign expressing the Socceroos’ intentions to play well above the level of the national team’s historic mediocrity. Even if not intended, local history was a victim of the campaign and the powerfully significant contribution of the ethnic European clubs was forgotten in the blaze of negative memories of all that was ‘wrong’ with ‘wogball’.

When the Socceroos beat Uruguay on penalties in November 2005 they did more than fulfil a long-cherished dream of almost all Australian soccer supporters to participate again in the World Cup. The result also seemed effectively to justify, first, the decisions made about the changing of the game’s ethnic identity and, second, the obliteration of the many positive things that had come from the wogball period and the eighty years before that.

Yet a review of the names of the scorers in that penalty shootout enables a profoundly beautiful realisation to emerge. Kewell, Neill, Vidmar, Viduka, Aloisi: individual players representing and embodying a progression of waves of Australian immigration: English, Irish, Slovenian, Croatian, Italian. Add the names of the crucial game-time goal-scorer Bresciano and the goalkeeper Schwarzer, responsible for two heroic shootout saves, and the multicultural diversity of Australian soccer is revealed in all its power and glory. And that is something worth remembering.

The internal denial of history is an ongoing and crippling problem for Australian soccer. The game’s millions of stakeholders deserve to believe that there are reasons for optimism that the game’s profound lack of self-belief and feelings of illegitimacy and unbelonging can be turned around at both national and state level. Denying the contribution of wogball past and present is simply no way encourage that belief.

And by amazing co-incidence . . .

Melbourne Soccer also 150 years old in 2020

The AFL might well be shifting the history goalposts once more and moving its origin date back from 1987 to 1870. Preparations seem underway already to celebrate another 150th (didn't we just have one?) in 2020. I guess that's the way the AFL rolls.

However, here's a little snippet from my research that suggests soccer may also have a coincidental anniversary.

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Of the Australian colonies in the period 1860–1880, Victoria was the one in which English Association rules seemed the least present. Aside from the occasional reported attempts to advocate the formation of a football association, soccer is absent in the received story of football in Melbourne until 1883. Given this absence, the following report of a game that seems a lot like soccer is somewhat tantalising.

An amusing game of football will be played on the Metropolitan ground, Yarra-park, this afternoon, between the local club and a team chosen from the ranks of the Victorian police force, who will play under the guidance of Mr J Conway, of the Carlton Club. The game will be played something after the home style, and holding or running with the ball will not be allowed.[i]

When the Police team and Melbourne FC (the 1870 AFL premiers in the newly rewritten version of footy history) were scheduled to have a match it was felt that major rule modifications were needed to give the police team a chance to be competitive. The Australasian reported that as a result the game was to be played under 'home rules' (using the more definitive ‘rules’ rather than ‘style’). It said, ‘In order to make the game as equal as possibly both teams will play according to the “home rules”, which provide that there shall be no holding or running with the ball.’[ii] 

The Argus match report followed two days later. The Melbourne team had proved too strong for the police, who struggled to cope despite the modifications. The match,

as was expected, was a most amusing affair, and attracted a large number of spectators to the metropolitan ground. The toss was won by the police, who elected to kick down the hill. With the view of equalising the chances of the teams, the rules of the Melbourne Club were slightly departed from, neither ‘marks,’ holding, nor running with the ball being allowed.[iii]

To work out just what this game might have looked like is difficult. The Melbourne Rules of the time need to be imagined with three crucial aspects missing. Players could handle the ball but they could not claim a mark, hold on to it or run with it. Most likely they needed to kick it quickly after catching it to avoid being pummelled.

The notions of the ‘home style’ and ‘home rules’ are intriguing. The various prohibitions and the (presumed) absence of offside rule out Rugby and the public school games. The absence of offside would also rule out Association football as codified in 1863. If anything the ‘home’ game they most closely resemble is the football of the Sheffield rules (a game which is formative in the development of soccer) – though it too allowed a mark.

Ultimately it cannot yet be said one way or the other if this is a very early example of a soccer-derived game being played in Australia. Despite its being a close relative, nor can this modified game be claimed as an immediate progenitor of Australian soccer.

But the point that should also be made is that the game bears little resemblance to the written Melbourne Rules of the time and virtually no likeness to Australian rules as played today. Then again the Melbourne Rules of the time bear little resemblance to Australian rules of today either, which begs the question of when Australian Rules football actually began. The myth says 1858/1859. The principles that form the basis of a code – established and relatively stable rules agreed and conformed to by an associated community of clubs – says 1877, at the earliest.

The 1870 Melbourne v Police game lies under erasure, unbelonging in our football history. Too difficult to categorise. And still too easy to ignore.

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[i] Argus, 9 July 1870, 4.

[ii]  Australasian, 9 July 1870, 11.

[iii] Argus, 11 July 1870, 5.

Qualifying is never easy: Australia’s World Cup history

Roy Hay

Australia will soon begin its fourth football World Cup finals campaign – the third successive tournament it has qualified for – with group stage matches against Chile, the Netherlands and Spain.

While some more recent Australian football fans might now view qualification for the World Cup as something we can take for granted, Australia’s earlier adventures in attempting to gain access to the pinnacle of the world game prove it wasn’t always thus.

Australia began trying to qualify for the World Cup soon after its FIFA membership was restored in 1963. Australia had been suspended because local clubs were signing up overseas players such as Leo Baumgartner and Sjel de Bruyckere, claiming they were just migrants who had arrived here and only wanted a game of football. Their European clubs were not receiving transfer fees and complained to FIFA, which suspended Australia.

Australia’s first attempt to get to the World Cup – the 1966 tournament in England – was very disappointing. The Australian team prepared in Cairns with a match against Ingham, while their opponent, North Korea, had about 35 competitive games before the two-match play-off in Phnom Penh. Australia lost both encounters comprehensively, then played a series of matches in Asia to help defray the trip’s costs.

Later, Australia learned to play warm-up games before the main event, not afterwards.

In 1967, in the middle of the Vietnam War with prime minister Harold Holt under pressure at home, it was decided that Australia should play in the Independence Day tournament in Saigon. The idea was to help demonstrate the superiority of democracy and boost morale among service personnel and the domestic population.

A young team led by Johnny Warren and coached by “Uncle” Joe Vlasits found itself interacting with Australian troops who would then go off to fight while they played and beat New Zealand, South Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia en route to the final against South Korea. The Australians threatened not to take part after being informed that there was no space in the stadium for the Australian military personnel who had been a huge support to the players on and off the field.

As it turned out, the service personnel were allowed in and the rest of the crowd supported Australia rather than the Koreans, much to the Australians' surprise. South Korea scored in the first minute, but the Australians responded brilliantly. Billy Vojtek produced a wonderful solo goal after 36 minutes and Atti Abonyi and Warren added the others in a 3-2 win to register Australia’s first international tournament victory.

The camaraderie in the face of adversity was an important element in the mindset that eventually helped Australia qualify for the World Cup in West Germany in 1974.

Led by Rale Rasic, a bunch of part-time players, some of whom had to give up their employment to take part, qualified by beating South Korea in another play-off, this time in Hong Kong. Everyone remembers Jimmy Mackay’s fierce shot that won the decisive game, but fewer remember Jimmy Fraser’s performances in goal that helped get Australia to that point.

Highlights from Australia’s 1974 World Cup qualification campaign.

In the finals, Australia lost to East and West Germany and drew with Chile. Chile, coincidentally, will be Australia’s first opponent in the 2014 tournament, and another draw would be an excellent result. That match against Chile in 1974 was marked by the appearance of Harry Williams as a substitute late in the game, the first recognised Indigenous player to represent Australia at a FIFA World Cup.

In 2005, after a wait of more than three decades, Australia qualified for another World Cup in a now-united Germany. People asked me before the tournament: “Will we qualify for Germany?” I would reply: “We always qualify for the World Cup in Germany.”

After the excruciatingly narrow loss to Iran at the MCG in 1997 on the away goals rule, getting to Germany depended once again on a series of brilliant saves by goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, who has recently retired from international football, and a penalty kick by John Aloisi to defeat Uruguay.

A penalty shootout sent Australia to the 2006 World Cup.

The nation united behind the team. It is estimated that some 60,000 Australians followed them to Germany, the largest outward movement of population since World War Two. Many did not have tickets but enjoyed the tournament in the fan fests in all of the World Cup cities.

At home, thousands got up in the middle of the night to watch Australia on big screens in cities across the country. Australia beat Japan with three very late goals, lost to Brazil, but then drew with Croatia to qualify for the knockout stages. Only a late penalty to the eventual winner, Italy, brought the campaign to an end.

Australia has since qualified for South Africa in 2010 – where it went out in the group stages after a win, loss and draw – and the tournament in Brazil is now about to start. Bring it on.

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Roy Hay and Bill Murray’s new book, A History of Football in Australia, is published by Hardie Grant.

The 2014 AFL season: a Guide

Bob J. Penny recently sent us this piece. Now I'm not a big footy fan but this seemed so hilarious that I just had to publish it. Be interested in your responses.

You won’t believe what I got accused of the other day. Some reprobate suggested that I was one of those people. You know. The people who only care about AFL once a year.

What a disgusting accusation. I mean, sure I’m excited about the Phoody Phinals that’ll be starting in cloudy Melbourne (or as the locals don’t call it, “Mexico”) in September, but it’s not true that I only get interested in “the footification game” when the World Series play-offs are on.

In fact, I follow the sport passionately all year, every year. I am a particularly fanatical supporter of our local team, the Greater Wandering Giants (or as we traditional hardcore fans know them, the “grey and faded oranges”) and I have a deep familiarity with all the major footifiers on the VFL roster.

Smithy, Johnno, Billy, Shane, Johnno and Scotty. I am a walking encyclopaedia on every one of them, and I resent any implication that I am not. The truth is that I am pretty much the epitome of what Wikipedia is talking about when it says “the game is played on an oval field”.

In fact, it is to prove that I am no footifying dilettante that I am penning this article to give some of my considered thoughts on the likely outcomes and implications of the upcoming footy Bowl. If nothing else it should be an education for those of you who are not au fait with the game they play in Mexico.

First of all: can the Midgets win? I say yes. I say this not just because westie bogans have a lot more guts than latte-sipping Melbournians, who make up 90 per cent of the other teams involved in the tourney, but also because our coach Scotty Smith-Johnson has put together a squad full of men who can kick the ball incredibly hard.

Footy neophytes may not realise this, but the most important thing in footy is to kick the ball as hard as you can, to penetrate “the goals”, a technical term for the four sticks at each end of the field.

As my old footy teacher used to say, “a kick in the head never hurt anyone”, and I think it’s probably true. Never hurt me. The Giants’ team has a lot of extremely hard kickers, like Smithy and Scotty. It’ll be difficult for the defenders of traditionally less robust clubs like North Mexico and Western Mexico to withstand the force of these men’s feet.

Another thing in the Graters’ favour is the rule change, which will come into force next week and which no-one will understand, especially the umpires. I think it’ll be pretty difficult for defences to hold out the Gwestes’ attack using only their tiny latte hearts or their boofy bogan brains.

Then there is the coach himself: in contrast to previous supremo Johnno, Scotty is a canny operator who is well-known around the country for his tactical brilliance.

His adoption of the lethal ‘crane stance’ will serve the team well in Melbourne. Reports from training camp indicate that Scotty has also been putting a lot of emphasis on slowing down the play the ball, and this should provide plenty of opportunities for the Gigantor footifiers to implement their structures at the stoppage.

Of course, Gigantic premiership is far from a fait acccompli: there are other strong contenders from the title, such as the home team itself, the Demonised Melbourne Amateurs.

They are always a threat with their skilful basketball midfield and frequent stupidity. Their neighbours Collingwood will also be hard to beat due to their talented array of bogans and toothless.

And then of course there is the Cold Ghost Suns, which with a rapidly growing Mexican emigre class is set to become the next century’s footynomic powerhouse, wielding significant influence over the national political landscape, including footy.

But perhaps the biggest wildcard in this extremely wild pack is Port Adelaide Magpowers, which has a tradition of great footering stretching back through Smithy, Scotty, Johnno, and Smithy, and will be sure to be on a full-bogan in tribute to the spirit of racism that runs through the code.

So that’s phoody for you. It won’t be easy for the Enormities to win this one, but I think we can be pretty confident that as long as they all stay fit and healthy, keep a steady line and length, and kick the ball as hard as possible, come that one day in September skipper Johnny ‘Johnno’ Johnstone-Johnson will once again hold the ‘Auld Mug’ high above his head on the Victoria Park terraces.

But more importantly than that, even after the World Series is over, we diehard fans of the Sport of Kings will go on cheering week in, week out.

Good luck Gigantic Graters of Sydney!

NPLV results 26 May 2014

NPL

ROUND 10

• Bentleigh Greens SC 1 Heidelberg United SC 3(HT: 1-1) 
• Pascoe Vale SC 2 Oakleigh Cannons FC 0(HT: 1-0)
• Dandenong Thunder SC 3 (J. Nakic 2, D. King 1) Ballarat Red Devils SC 1 (D. O'Donnell 1)(HT: 0-0)
• Hume City FC 0 Green Gully SC 3 (M. Sanders 1, J. Hayne 1)(HT: 0-0)
• Melbourne Knights FC 3 (A. Colosimo 2, D. Visevic 1) Port Melbourne Sharks SC 1(HT: 0-1)
• Northcote City FC 3 (J. Kalifatidis 1, A. Chiappetta 1, T. Rixon 1) Goulburn Valley Suns FC 0(HT: 2-0)
• Werribee City FC 0 South Melbourne FC 1 (M. Lujic 1)(HT: 0-1) 

NPL1

ROUND 9

• Sunshine George Cross SC 1 (M. Sadik 1) Box Hill United SC 0(HT: 0-0)
• Avondale Heights SC 2 (J. Principato 1, Z. Pajic 1) Dandenong City SC 1 (A. Jerez 1)(HT: 2-0)
• Whittlesea Ranges FC 0 North Geelong Warriors FC 4 (R. Luka 3, M. Paleka 1)(HT: 0-2)
• FC Bendigo 1 (G. Slefendorfas 1) Springvale White Eagles FC 4 (A. Fesseha 3, H. Millar 1)(HT: 1-1) 
• Moreland Zebras FC 0 Richmond SC Seniors  1(HT: 0-1)
• St Albans Saints SC 4 (B. Devlin 2, J. Julardzija 1) Brunswick City SC 0(HT: 3-0) 

TABLES
NPL

                                                    P       W       L       D       F       A       GD      PTS    

1   South Melbourne FC               10      10      0       0       23      7       16      30     

2   Oakleigh Cannons FC              10      6       1       3       23      8       15      21     

3   Heidelberg United SC              10      7       3       0       27      14      13      21     

4   Dandenong Thunder SC           10      5       3       2       13      17      -4      17     

5   Bentleigh Greens SC                 9       4       3       2       16      14      2       14     

6   Northcote City FC                   10      4       5       1       18      17      1       13     

7   Hume City FC                         10      4       5       1       12      13      -1      13     

8   Werribee City FC                    10      4       5       1       14      18      -4      13     

9   Port Melbourne Sharks SC      10      3       4       3       17      19      -2      12     

10  Green Gully SC                       10      4       6       0       19      25      -6      12     

11  Ballarat Red Devils SC             9       3       5       1       15      22      -7      10     

12  Melbourne Knights FC            10      3       7       0       11      15      -4      9      

13  Pascoe Vale SC                      10      2       5       3       10      15      -5      9      

14  Goulburn Valley Suns FC        10      1       8       1       13      27      -14     4      

NPL1

                                                     P       W       L       D       F       A       GD      PTS    

1   Avondale Heights SC                 9       8       1       0       24      9       15      24     

2   Sunshine George Cross SC        9       6       2       1       18      13      5       19      

3   St Albans Saints SC                   9       7       2       0       22      11      11      18     

4   Box Hill United SC                    9       5       2       2       19      9       10      17     

5   FC Bulleen Lions                        8       4       1       3       21      11      10      15     

6   Kingston City FC                        8       4       3       1       18      15      3       13     

7   Richmond SC Seniors                 9       4       4       1       16      22      -6      13     

8   North Geelong Warriors FC        9       4       5       0       16      14      2       12     

9   Springvale White Eagles FC        9       4       5       0       21      24      -3      12     

10  Dandenong City SC                   9       3       5       1       17      21      -4      10     

11  Moreland Zebras FC                 9       2       6       1       15      17      -2      7      

12  Whittlesea Ranges FC                9       2       6       1       12      21      -9      7      

13  FC Bendigo                               9       2       6       1       15      24      -9      7      

14  Brunswick City SC                     9       1       8       0       8       31      -23     3    

A Bibliography of Australian Football

Roy Hay has generously given us his permission to publish the bibliography from his and Bill Murray's A history of football in Australia: A game of two halves published by Hardie Grant, 2014. ISBN: 9781742707648  

Feel free to let us know if any important works are missing.

Books

Adair, Daryl & Wray Vamplew, Sport in Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997.

Alagich, Colin, 100 Years of the World Game in Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide Lion Soccer Club, Adelaide, 2007.

Alagich, Richard, Soccer: Winning through Technique and Tactics, McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 1995.

Behrendt, Sarah, History of the Socceroos, Penguin Australia, Camberwell, Victoria, 2011.

Blainey, Geoff, A Game of our Own: The Origins of Australian Football, Information Australia, Melbourne, 1990, new edition, Black, Melbourne, 2003.

Booth, Douglas & Colin Tatz, One-Eyed: A View of Australian Sport, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 2000.

Cashman, Richard, Paradise of Sport: The Rise of Organised Sport in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995.

Cockerill, Mike, Soccer’s Long Road to the Top, Lothian, Port Melbourne, 1998.

Cordner, John, The World of Football: A history of Football’s Various Codes from their Origins to Today, Self-published, Killara, NSW, 2002

Crowe, Rory, 100 Years of Queensland Soccer, Queensland Soccer Federation, Sportslead, Brisbane, 1984.

Desira, Peter with Richard Curmi, Green Gully Soccer Club: 50 Years, SESA, Teesdale, 2006.

Dettre, Andrew, Silver Jubilee of St. George-Budapest 1957-1982, The Club, Sydney 1982.

Economou, Nick, That other game: association football, politics and society, Sir Robert Menzies Centre, University of London, London, 1996.

Ray Erskine, A History of Ipswich Soccer, Coalstars Soccer Club, Ipswich, April 1980. Copy in John Oxley Library, Brisbane.

Fairs, Sid, ed., Corrimal Rangers: Soccer Centenary 1891–1991, The Club, Wollongong, 1991.

Fink, Jesse, 15 Days in June: How Australia became a Football Nation, Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2007.

Foster, Craig, Fozz on Football, Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2011.

Georgakis, Steve, Sport and the Australian Greek, Standard Publishing, Rozelle, NSW, 2000.

Georgakis, Steve, The Greek-Australian Sport Hall of Fame, Halkeas Press, Sydney, 2000.

Goldblatt, David, The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football, Penguin, London, 2007.

Gough, Tom, Introduction to Australian Soccer, New Horizon, Bognor Regis, 1983.

Grant, Sidney James, The History of Coalfields Soccer, The Author, Sydney, 1978.

Grant, Sidney James, Jack Pollard's Soccer Records, Jack Pollard, Sydney, n.d. [1974].

Green, Geoffrey, The History of the Football Association, 1863-1953, Naldrett Press, London, n.d. [1953].

Greenwood, Barrie, Soccer: West Australia 1960 to 2000, Perth Advertising Services, Perth, 2000.

Hall, Matthew, The Away Game, Harper Sports, Sydney, 2000.

Hall, Matthew, The Away Game: the Secret Lives of Australia's Soccer Superstars, Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2006.

Harlow, Denis, History of Soccer in South Australia, 1902–2002, South Australian Soccer Federation, Adelaide, 2003.

Harlow, Denis, Cumberland United Soccer and Social Club: 50 Years 1943–1993, Cumberland United, Adelaide, 1993.

Harper, Andy, The Socceroos: Voodoo to Destiny, Limelight, Sydney, 2006.

Fisher, Rosalind & Peter Morrison, Hakoah Club Sydney 1938-1994, Hakoah Club, Bondi Junction, Sydney, 1994.

Hay, Roy & Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game of Two Halves, Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2014.

Hay, Roy & Ian Syson, The Story of Football in Victoria, Football Federation Victoria, Melbourne, 2009.

Hay, Roy, Geelong Advertiser Cup, 1981-2005: Souvenir Record, Printstar, Geelong, 2005.

Howell, Reet & Maxwell L. Howell, The Genesis of Sport in Queensland : From the Dreamtime to Federation, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 1992.

Hudson, Chris, A Century of Soccer, 1898–1998: A Tasmanian History, Peacock Publishers, Hobart, 1998.

Kallinikios, John, Soccer Boom: The Transformation of Victorian Soccer Culture 1945-1963, Walla Walla, Sydney, 2007.

Kreider, Richard, A Soccer Century: A chronicle of Western Australian Soccer from 1896 to 1996, Sports West Media, Perth, WA, 1996.

Kreider, Richard, Paddocks to Pitches: The Definitive History of Western Australian Football, SportWest Media, Perth, 2012.

Lanfranchi, Pierre & Matthew Taylor, Moving with the Ball: The Migration of Professional Footballers, Berg, Oxford, 2001.

Lawrence, Geoffrey & David Rowe (eds), Power play: essays in the sociology of Australian sport, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, c1986.

Lustica, Bernard, From Hope to Glory: 40 Years of Croatia Deakin Soccer Club, Croatia Deakin, Canberra, 1999.

Martin, Egilberto, Juve! Juve! Elabor Helena Nominees, Brooklyn, Victoria, 1990.

Mason, Nicholas, Football! The Story of All the World’s Football Games, Temple Smith, London, 1974.

Maynard, John, The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe: A History of Aboriginal Involvement with the World Game, Magabala Books, Broome, Western Australia, 2011.

McKay, Jim, No pain, no gain?: Sport and Australian Culture, Prentice Hall, Sydney, 1991.

Micallef, Philip, The World Cup Story: An Australian View, Philip Micallef, Carringbah NSW, 1994.

Mosely, Philip A., Ethnic Involvement in Australian Soccer: A History, 1950–1990, National Sports Research Centre, Australian Sports Commission, Canberra, 1995.

Mosely, Philip A., et al, Sporting Immigrants, Walla Walla, Sydney, 1997.

Murray, Bill, Football. A history of the world game, Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1994.

Murray, Bill, The World’s Game: A history of soccer, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 1996.

Murray, Bill & Roy Hay, The World Game Downunder, ASSH Studies no. 19, Australian Society for Sports History, Melbourne, 2006.

Murray, Les, World Youth Championship Greats, AGPS, Canberra, 1993.

Murray, Les, By the Balls: Memoir of a Football Tragic, Random House, Sydney, 2006.

Nikolich, Peter, Beograd: White City Woodville 1949-1999, Beograd, Adelaide, 1999.

Nimac, Ivan, et al, More than the Game: 50 Years of Sydney United, Sydney United Football Club, Sydney, 2008.

O’Hara, John, (ed.), Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia, ASSH Studies in Sports History Number 10, Australian Society for Sports History, Campelltown, 1994.

Olivier-Scerri, G E, Encyclopaedia of Australian Soccer 1922-88, Showcase Publications, St Leonards, NSW, 1988.

Pospisil, Marijan, Croatia Sydney S.F.C. 1958-1988, The Club, Sydney, 1988.

Punshon, John, Australia 1922-1998, Soccer: The International Line-ups and Statistics Series, Soccer Books Ltd, Cleethorpes, 1999.

Schwab, Laurie, The Socceroos and their Opponents, Newspress, Melbourne, 1979.

Simmons, Ted, FFA Hall of Fame 2007, FFA, Sydney, 2007.

Smith, Tony, Soccer Lesson: The South Australian State Soccer Team and its Opponents 1923–1977, Peacock Publishers, Adelaide, 2013.

Soccer: Aussie Sports Coaching Program, ACHPER, Parkside, South Australia, c1987.

Solly, Ross, Shoot Out: The Passion and Politics of Soccer’s Fight for Survival in Australia, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Qld, 2004.

Stell, Marion K, Half the Race: A History of Australian Women in Sport, Collins/Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, NSW, 1991.

Sutalo, Ilija, Croatians in Australia: Pioneers, Settlers and their Descendants, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2004.

The Hamlyn international book of soccer, contributors Michael Archer [et al.], Hamlyn, London, 1977.

Tkalcevic, Mato, Croats in Australia: An Information and Resource Guide, Victoria College Press, Burwood, Victoria, 1988.

Thompson, Trevor, One Fantastic Goal: A Complete History of Football in Australia, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006.

Unikoski, Rachel, Communal Endeavours: Migrant Organisations in Melbourne, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1978.

Ward, Tony, Sport in Australian National Identity: Kicking Goals, Routledge, London, 2010.

Warren, Ian, Football Crowds and Cultures: Comparing English and Australian Law Enforcement Trends, ASSH, Melbourne, 2003.

Warren, John, Know the Game: Australian Football, Kingfisher Books, Cheltenham Vic, 1984.

Warren, Johnny & Andre Dettre, Soccer: The Australian Way, Summit, Sydney, 1979.

Warren, Johnny & Andrew Dettre, Soccer in Australia, Hamlyn, Sydney, 1974.

Watson, Elaine, Australian Women’s Soccer: The First Twenty Years, Australian Women’s Soccer Association, Canberra, 1994.

West Woden Juventus SC, West Woden Juventus: 25 years of Soccer, The Club, Manuka, ACT, 1979.

Williams, Jean, A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women's Football, Berg, Oxford, 2007.

Williams, Paul, with Kevin Christopher, The Un-official Beginners Guide to the History of the Australian National Soccer League, Studs Up, Bentleigh, 1999.

Williamson, John, Soccer Anzacs: The Story of Caledonian Soccer Club, John Williamson, Applecross, Western Australia, 1998.

Wilson, Tony, Australia United: Adventures at the 2006 World Cup, Germany, GSPBooks, Melbourne, 2006.

Biographies and Autobiographies

Allen, Peter, Reg Date: The Don Bradman of Football, Allen Media Services, Mosman, NSW, 2011.

Baumgartner, Leo, The Little Professor of Soccer, Marketing Productions, Bondi Junction, 1968.

Briscoe, Gordon, Racial Folly: A Twentieth Century Aboriginal Family, ANU press, Canberra, 2010.

Campbell, Donald, The Campbell Files: Everything You Won’t Find in the Stewart Report, Margaret Bowden, Marion, South Australia, 1995.

Farina, Frank with Bonita Mersiades, My World is Round: A Personal Playing History, Vox Peritus, Milton, Queensland, 1998.

Harper, Andy, Mr and Mrs Soccer, Random House, Sydney, 2004.

Johnston, Craig, Walk Alone, Collins Australia, Sydney, 1989.

Lusetich, Robert, My Beloved Socceroos: The Frank Arok Story, ABC Books, Sydney, 1992.

Mallett, Ashley, John Kosmina, Hutcheson Australia, Melbourne, 1983.

Margo, Jill, Frank Lowy: Pushing the Limits, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2001.

Moriarty, John, Saltwater Fella: An Inspiring True Story of Success against all Odds, Penguin, Melbourne, 2000.

O’Neill, John, It’s Only a Game: A Life in Sport, Random House, Sydney, 2007.

Perkins, Charles, A Bastard Like Me, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1975.

Rasic, Rale with Ray Gatt, The Rale Rasic Story, New Holland, Sydney, 2006.

Read, Peter, Charles Perkins: A Biography, Penguin, Ringwood, Victoria, 1990 and 2001.

Schwarzer, Mark, World Cup Destiny: From Sydney to Stuttgart, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006.

Shorrock, Les, My Charmed Life, privately published, no date.

Slater, Robbie, with Matthew Hall, The Hard Way, Harper Sports, Sydney, 1999.

Wade, Paul with Kyle Patterson, Captain Socceroo: The Paul Wade story, Harper Sports, Sydney, 1995.

Warren, Johnny with Andy Harper & Josh Whittington, Sheilas, Wogs and Poofters: An Incomplete Biography of Johnny Warren and Soccer in Australia, Random House, Sydney, 2002.

Chapters

Booth, Ross. ‘The A-League: A New League for Australia. From Old Soccer to New Football’, in Peter Burke and June Senyard, eds, Behind the Play: Football in Australia, Melbourne, Maribyrnong Press, 2008, 221–238.

Dabscheck, Braham. ‘Moving Beyond Ethnicity: Soccer’s Evolutionary Progress’, in Bon Stewart, ed., The Games Are Not the Same: The Political Economy of Football in Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2007, 198–235.

Hay, Roy, ‘Soccer and social control in Scotland, 1873-1973,’ in Richard Cashman and Michael McKernan (eds) Sport: Money, Morality and the Media, Kensington, New South Wales University Press, 1981, pp. 223-247.

Hay, Roy, ‘A new look at soccer violence’, in Denis Hemphill, ed., All part of the game: Violence and Australian sport, Sydney, Walla Walla Press, 1998, 41–62.

Hay, Roy, ‘British Football, Wogball or the World Game?  Towards a social history of Victorian Soccer’, in John O’Hara, ed., Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia, ASSH Studies in Sports History Number 10, Australian Society for Sports History, Campelltown, 1994, 44–79.

Hay, Roy, ‘Oral history, migration and soccer in Australia, 1880-2000,’ in A James Hammerton  and Eric Richards , eds, Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration, Visible Immigrants 6, History Program and Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2002, 39-61.

Hay, Roy, ‘Croatia: Community, conflict and culture: the role of soccer clubs in migrant identity’, in Michael Cronin and David Mayall, eds, Sporting nationalisms: Identity, ethnicity and assimilation, London, Frank Cass, 1998, 49–66.

Hay, Roy & Marnie Haig-Muir, ‘“Huntin, Shootin and Fishin” and the Rest: Sports in Geelong in the Mid-nineteenth Century and Afterwards’, in Tom Spurling & Geoff Peel, eds, The View from Station Peak: Writings on Geelong: History and Literature, n.p., Geelong, 2007, 85–99.

Hay, Roy, ‘Croatia: Community, conflict and culture: the role of soccer clubs in migrant identity’, in Michael Cronin and David Mayall, eds, Sporting nationalisms: Identity, ethnicity and assimilation, London, Frank Cass, 1998, pp. 49-66.

Hay, Roy, ‘The last night of the Poms: Australia as a post-colonial sporting society,’ in John Bale and Mike Cronin, eds, Sport and post-colonialism, Berg, Oxford, 2003, pp. 15-28.

Hay, Roy, ‘Fan culture in Australian football (soccer): From ethnic to mainstream?’ in Matthew Nicholson, Bob Stewart and Rob Hess, eds, Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, Maribyrnong Press, Melbourne, 2006, 91–105.

Hay, Roy, ‘Violence by Players’, in Wray Vamplew et al. (eds) Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Second Edition 1994, originally published, 1992, pp. 443-446.

Hay, Roy & Ian Warren, ‘Who supports Melbourne Victory? A preliminary inquiry into crowd make-up and dynamics in the new A-League,’ in Peter Burke and June Senyard, eds, Behind the Play: Football in Australia , Maribyrnong Press, Melbourne, 2008, 239–260.

Hughson, John, ‘The Bad Blue Boys and “the magical recovery” of John Clarke’, in Gary Armstrong and Richard Giulianotti, eds, Entering the Field: Studies in World Football, Oxford, Berg, 1997, pp. 239-259.

Jones, Roy & Philip Moore, ‘He only has eyes for Poms’, in John O’Hara, ed., Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia, ASSH Studies in Sports History, Number 10, Australian Society for Sports History, Campbelltown, NSW, 1994, 16–32.

Miller, Toby, ‘The Unmarking of Soccer: Making a Brand New Subject’, in T. Bennett et al, eds, Celebrating The Nation: A Critical Study of Australia's Bicentenary, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, 1992.

Moon, Paul & Peter Burns, The Asia-Oceania Soccer Handbook, The Authors, Oamaru, New Zealand, 1985.

Mosely, Philip, ‘Balkan Politics in Australian Soccer’, in John O’Hara, ed., Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia, ASSH Studies in Sports History, Number 10, Australian Society for Sports History, Campbelltown, NSW, 1994, 33–43.

Mosely, Philip, ‘Soccer’, in Philip A. Mosely, Richard Cashman, John O’Hara & Hilary Weatherburn, eds, Sporting Immigrants, Walla Walla Press, Crows Nest, NSW, 1997, 00–00.

Murray, Bill, ‘The workers sports movement in France’, in Arnd Krueger and Jim Riordan, eds, The story of Workers Sport, Human Kinetics, Champaign, 1996, 00–00.

Murray, Bill with Philip Mosely, ‘Soccer, in Wray Vamplew and Brian Stoddart, eds, Sport in Australia. A Social History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, pp. 213–230.

Murray, Bill, ‘Asia and the Pacific’, in Stephen Wagg, ed., Giving the game away. Football, politics and culture in five continents, Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1995, pp. 138-162.

Procter, Nicholas and Lynch, Rob 1995, ‘The uses of soccer by Serbian Australians in the expression of cultural identity’, in Clare Simpson and Bob Gidlow, eds, Proceedings of ANZALS Conference 1995, ANZALS, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand, 182–188.

Vamplew, Wray, ‘Violence in Australian Soccer: The Ethnic contribution’, in John O’Hara, ed., Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia, ASSH Studies in Sports History, Number 10, Australian Society for Sports History, Campbelltown, NSW, 1994, 1–15.

Vamplew, Wray, ‘Sports crowd disorder: An Australian survey’, in John O’Hara, ed., Crowd violence at Australian sport, ASSH Studies in Sports History, No. 7, Australian Society for Sports History, Campbelltown, 1992, 79–111.

Warren, Ian, ‘Soccer subcultures in Australia’, in Carmel Guerra and Rob White, Ethnic minority youth in Australia: Challenges and myths, National Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, Hobart, 1995, 121-131.

Warren, Ian & Roy Hay, ‘Order and disorder at sporting venues’, Denis Hemphill, ed., All part of the game: Violence and Australian sport, Sydney, Walla Walla Press, 1998, pp. 63-86.

Westerbeek, Hans & Aaron Smith, ‘Australian Amateur Soccer and Ethnicity: Cross-cultural Marketing Challenges’, in Rob Hess, Matthew Nicholson, and Bob Stewart, eds, Football Fever: Crossing Boundaries, Melbourne, Maribyrnong Press, 2005, 73–88.

Articles

Adair, Daryl, and Vamplew, Wray, ‘Not So Far From the Madding Crowd: Spectator Violence in Britain and Australia. A Review Article’, Sporting Traditions, 7(1), November 1990, 95–103.

Adair, Daryl, ‘Australian Sport History: From the Founding Years to Today’, Sport in History, 29(3), 2009, 405–436.

Brabazon, Tara, ‘What’s the Story Morning Glory? Perth Glory and the Imagining of Englishness’, Sporting Traditions, May 1998, No. 2, pp. 53–66.

Brawley, Sean, ‘Second rate Java Jaunters: soccer football, the imaginary grandstand, cultural diplomacy and Australia's Asian context’, Sport in Society, 15(4), 2012, 504–528

Carniel, Jennifer, ‘Sheilas, Wogs and Metrosexuals: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Australian Soccer’, Soccer & Society, 10(1), 2009, 73-83

Dabscheck, Braham, ‘Assaults on Soccer’s Compensation System: Europe and Australia Compared’, (Review Article) Sporting Traditions, November 1996, No. 1, pp. 81-107.

Dabscheck, Braham, ‘Australian Soccer’s Freedom of Association Dispute’, Sporting Traditions, November 2000, No. 1, pp. 57-75

Dabscheck, Braham, ‘Early Attempts at Forming Soccer Player Unions in Australia’, Sporting Traditions, May 1994, No. 2, pp. 25-40.

Dabscheck, Braham, ‘Sporting Labour Markets and the Courts’, Sporting Traditions, November 1985, No. 1, pp. 2-24.

Danforth, Loring M, ‘Is the world game an ethnic game or an Aussie game? Narrating the nation in Australian soccer’, American Ethnologist, 28 (2), 2001, pp. 363-87.

Guoth, Nick, ‘A new China: using Sport to Expose a Multi-class Race through the 1923 Chinese Soccer Tour of Australia’, Sport in Society, 15(4), 2012, 462–478.

Hallinan, Christopher J., John E, Hughson & Michael Burke, ‘Supporting the World Game in Australia: A Case Study of Fandom at National and Club Level’, Soccer & Society 8(2–3), April–July 2007, 283–97.

Hallinan, Chris & John Hughson, ‘The beautiful game in Howard’s “Brutopia”: Football, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Australia’, Soccer & Society, 10(1), 2009, 1–8.

Hallinan, Christopher J. & March L. Krotee, ‘Conceptions of Nationalism & Citizenship Among Non-Anglo Celtic Soccer Clubs in an Australian City’, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 17(2), Aug 1993, 125–133.

Hallinan, Christopher & Tom Heenan, ‘Australia, Asia and the New Football Opportunity’, Soccer and Society, 14(5), 2013, 751–767.

Harrison, Graham, ‘What’s in an Ethnic Name?: Soccer Clubs in Australia’, Canberra Anthropology, 2(2), Oct 1979, 23–35

Hay, Roy, ‘Ethnicity, Structure and Globalisation: An Argument about Association Football in Australia, 1958–2010,’ Sport in Society, 14(6), August 2011, 833–850.

Hay, Roy, ‘A Tale of Two Footballs: The origins of Association Football and Australian Rules Revisited,’ Sport in Society, 13(6), August 2010, 952–969.

Hay, Roy, ‘Another abortive soccer players union’, ASSH Bulletin, 24, June 1996, 11–14.

Hay, Roy, ‘Australian soccer clubs for sale’, Sports Factor, ABC Radio National, with Amanda Smith, Melbourne, 19 May 2000. Transcript available at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s68958.htm

Hay, Roy, ‘Black (Yellow or Green) Bastards: Soccer Refereeing in Australia: A much maligned profession’, Sporting Traditions, 15(2), May 1999, 19–36.

Hay, Roy, ‘Croatia: Community, conflict and culture: the role of soccer clubs in migrant identity’, Journal of Immigrants and Minorities, 17(1), March 1998, 49–66.

Hay, Roy, ‘Marmaras’s oyster or Seamonds’ baby?  The formation of the Victorian Soccer Federation, 1956-1964’, Sporting Traditions, 10, No 2, 1994, pp. 3-24.

Hay, Roy, ‘“Our wicked foreign game”: Why has Association Football (soccer) not become the main code of football in Australia?’ Soccer and Society, 7, no. 2–3, April-July 2006, 165–186.

Hay, Roy, ‘Sidelight on bodyline,’ Baggy Green: Journal of Australian Cricket, Volume 4 No 1, 2001, pp. 19-21. Contains material on a soccer match between the English cricket tourists of 1932-33 and Hakoah Melbourne just prior to departure.

Hay, Roy, ‘Soccer in Geelong between the Wars’, Investigator, No. 115, vol 29,  No. 2, June 1994, pp. 47-60 and ‘Soccer in Geelong since the War’, Investigator, No. 116, Vol. 29, No. 3, August 1994, pp. 87-108.

Hay, Roy, ‘Sports Mad Nations: Some research already done,’ Australian Society for Sports History Bulletin, 33, February 2001, pp. 18-24.

Hay, Roy, review of Matthew Hall, The Away Game, Sydney, Harper Sports, 2000; Geelong Advertiser, 7 October 2000, p. 45.

Hay, Roy & Nick Guoth, ‘No single pattern: Australian Migrant Minorities and the Round Ball Code in Victoria,’ Soccer and Society, 10(6), November 2009, 825–844.

Hay, Roy & Heath McDonald, ‘A Victory for the fans? Melbourne’s new football club in historical perspective,’ Soccer and Society, 8(2/3), April/June 2007, 297–314.

Hay, Roy & Tony Joel, ‘Football’s World Cup and its Fans—Reflections on National Styles: A Photo Essay on Germany 2006,’ Soccer and Society, 8(1), January 2007, 1–32.

Hughes, Antony, Review of Rosalind Fisher & Peter Morrison, Hakoah Club Sydney 1938-1994, Hakoah Club, Bondi Junction, Sydney, 1994, Sporting Traditions, 1995, Vol. 11, ( 2), pp. 128-30.

Hughson, John 1999, ‘A tale of two tribes: Expressive fandom in Australian soccer’s A-League’, Culture, Sport and Society, 2, Number 3, Autumn 1999, pp. 10-30.

Hughson, John, ‘Australian soccer: “Ethnic or Aussie” – The search for image’, Current Affairs Bulletin, 10, March 1992, pp. 12-16.

Hughson, John, ‘Football, folk dancing and fascism: diversity and difference in multicultural Australia, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 33, 1997, pp. 167-186.

Hughson, John, Soccer Support and Social Identity: Finding the ‘thirdspace’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 33(4), 1998, 403–409.

Hughson, John, ‘The Boys are Back in Town: Soccer Support and the Social Reproduction of Masculinity’, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 24(1), 2000, 8–23.

Hughson, John, ‘The Wogs are at it again’: The Media Reportage of Australian Soccer ‘Riots’, Football Studies, 4(1), 2001, 40–55.

James, Keiran, Chris Tolliday & Rex Walsh, ‘Where to now, Melbourne Croatia? Football Federation Australia’s use of Accounting Numbers to Institute Exclusion upon Ethnic Clubs’, Asian Review of Accounting, 19(2), 2011, 112–124.

Lawrence, G. A. (Geoffrey A.), Thugs, hooligans and animals: Australian media analysis of the Brussels football riot, Australian Studies Centre, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, London, 1986.

Lock, Daniel. ‘Fan Perspectives of Change in the A-League’, Soccer & Society, 10(1), 2009, 109–23.

Lock, Daniel, S. Darcy & T. Taylor, ‘Starting with a clean slate: An analysis of member identification with a new sports team’, Sport Management Review, 12(1), 2009, 15–25.

Lynch, Rob, ‘Disorder on the sidelines of Australian Sport", Sporting Traditions, 8 (1) 1991, pp. 50-75.

Moore, Phillip. ‘Soccer in the West: The World Game in Australia’s Western Periphery’, Soccer & Society, 10(1), 2009, 84–95.

Mosely, Philip, ‘European immigrants and soccer violence in New South Wales, 1949-1959’, Journal of Australian Studies, No. 40, March 1994, pp. 14-26.

Mosely, Philip, ‘Factory Football: Paternalism and Profits’, Sporting Traditions, November 1985, No. 1, pp. 25-36.

Mosely, Philip, ‘The Game: Early Soccer Scenery in New South Wales’ Sporting Traditions, May 1992, No. 2, pp. 135-151.

Mosely, Philip, Ethnic Involvement in Australian Soccer: A History 1950-1990, (Book Review) by Lyle Allen, Sporting Traditions, May 1995, No. 2, pp. 145-150.

Murray, Bill, and Hay, Roy, ‘Australia and Olympic soccer’, The Cauldron, a special issue of Yorker, Melbourne Cricket Club Current Awareness Bulletin, 27, Spring 2000, 2–6.

Murray, Bill, in Jason di Rosso’s radio programme on ‘The Beautiful Game’ Radio 4EB Brisbane six part radio series on ‘Messages from the past, Voices to the future’.

Musch, Jochen, (University of Bonn) and Hay, Roy, ‘The relative age effect in soccer: cross-cultural evidence for a systematic discrimination against children born late in the competition year’, Sociology of Sport Journal, 16, 1999, 54–64.

Nielsen, Eric, ‘”Indian hockey [and football] tricks”: race, magic, wonder and empire in Australian–Indian sporting relations, 1926–1938’, Sport in Society, 15(4), 2012, 551-564

Pajic, Zoran, ‘”A” is for Australia: New Football’s Billionaires, consumers and the “Asian Century”. How the A-League defines the new Australia’, Soccer and Society, 14(5), 2013, 734–750.

Rowe, David & Gilmour, C., ‘Getting a ticket to the world party: televising soccer in Australia’, Soccer & Society, 10(1), 2009, 9–26

James Skinner, Dwight Zakus & Allan Edwards, ‘Coming in from the margins: ethnicity, community support and the rebranding of Australian soccer’, Soccer & Society, 9(3), 2008, 394–404.

Taylor, Tracy, Lock, Daniel & Darcy, Simon, ‘The Janus face of diversity in Australian Sport’, Sport in Society, 12(7), 2009, 861–875.

Warren, Ian & Roy Hay, ‘“Fencing them in”: The A-League, Policing and the Dilemma of Public Order,’ Soccer and Society, 10(1), January 2009, 124–141.

Weinberg, Ben, ‘“The Future is Asia”? The Role of the Asian Football Confederation in the Governance and Development of Football in Asia,’ The International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(4), March 2012, 535–552.

Newspapers and Magazines

Australian FourFourTwo, 2005–continuing

Goal Weekly, 2005–continuing

King Soccer (South Australia), 1960s.

Soccer Action, 1976–1987.

Soccer Mirror

Soccer News, (Victoria) 1924-

Soccer News, (Victorian Amateur Soccer Football Association), 1948–1972.

Soccer News (Metropolitan Soccer Football Association, New South Wales) 1922–1927.

Soccer News (Australian Soccer Football Association) 1953.

Soccer News (South Australia) 1956–60.

Soccer Star, 1988-1990.

Soccer Week, 1974-1976.

Soccer Weekly News (NSW Soccer FA Ltd) 1947–1950, 1952–1958.

Soccer Weekly, 1962.

Soccer Week, 1975.

Soccer Voice, 1985, 1986.

Inside Soccer, 1999.

Australian Soccer Weekly, 1980, continued as Australian and British Soccer Weekly 1991, and Australian and International Football Weekly 200x-2011 or 2012

Soccer International,

Soccer World, (NSW State Soccer League) 21 August 1931

Soccer World (NSW Federation of Soccer Clubs) 1959

Soccer World, Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 12, 1958)-v. 25, no. 9 (Oct. 1982)

Australian Soccer, 1989-1991

Western Australia Soccer Mail (Western Australia Soccer FA) 1951–1952 and beyond?

World Soccer, 1960–continuing

Sporting Globe, 1922–1972.

Studs Up,

League News, Official Weekly Newsletter of the Amateur Soccer Federation of Victoria, 199??-

Football Annual (‘Sunday Chronicle’) 1948–49 season.

Howe, Andrew, National Soccer League, Official Season Guide 2003–04. Soccer Australia, Homebush, Sydney, 2003.

Theses

Dew, Stephanie, Ethnic Involvement in Sport in Geelong, 1945-1990, M A Thesis, Deakin University, 1992.

Georgakis, Steve, Greek sporting traditions in Australia: An historical study of ethnicity, gender and youth, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney, 1999.

Hughson, John E, A feel for the game: An ethnographic study of soccer support and identity, PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996.

John Kallinikios, Sporting Realities and Social Meanings: The Transformation and Representation of Soccer in Victoria, 1945-1963, University of Melbourne, PhD thesis, 2004.

Lobley, J Murray, ‘Coal, steel and leather’: The history of soccer in Gippsland, M A thesis, Victoria University of Technology, 2001.

Lock, Daniel, New Team Identification: Sydney FC, A Case Study, Ph.D. thesis, University of Technology, Sydney, 2009.

McNeice, Kian, Soccer-Related Soccer Violence: Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Australian Setting, BA (Hons) thesis, Australian National University, 1991.

Mosely, Philip A, A Social History of Soccer in New South Wales, 1880–1957, PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 1987.

Pocklington, Michael, Ethnicity of Football in Australia, Master of Business (Sports Management), Deakin University, 2006.

Spurling, Anna, Hooligans or Fans? Violence and culture in Association Football since the Second World War, BA Honours Thesis, Deakin University, 1999.

Warren, Ian, Cultures of control: Law, Enforcement and public order at sporting events: A comparative approach, MA thesis, University of Melbourne, 1996.

Reports

Bubalo, Antony, Football Diplomacy, Lowy Institute, Sydney, November 2005.

Constantine, John, Holmes, Ian, ASF Submission responding to the Stewart Report, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 1995.

Coulter, John, Soccer: Senate First Report June 1995, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 1995.

Coulter, John, Soccer: Senate Second Report November 1995, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 1995.

Australian sport, a profile, Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism [and] Australian Sports Commission, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1985.

Australian sport index. National Sport Information Centre, Belconnen, ACT, [1988].

Australian sports directory, Department of Home Affairs, Australian Govt. Pub. Service, Canberra, 1979- From 1979/80 to 1981/82, each issue covers July 1-June 30.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Participation in Sport and Physical Activities’, Year Book Australia, 1998 (ABS Catalogue No. 1301.0) for an electronic version, see http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3110124.NSF/14e59eeb4d4c9c94ca25670400073e4f

NSL Task Force. Report of the NSL Task Force into the Structure of a New National Soccer League Competition (Kemeny Report). Sydney: Australian Soccer Association, 2003

Soccer, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Senate Environment, Recreation, Communications and the Arts Reference Committee, First Report, Canberra, June 1995; Second Report, November 1995.

Hay, Roy, and Michael Pocklington, with Ian Warren. First Report on a Public Order Strategy for the City of Melbourne, unpublished research report to the City of Melbourne, July 2007.

Smith, Winston, Building Australia’s football community: A Review into the Sustainability of Football, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2011.

Coaching manuals

Alagich, Richard, Soccer: Winning through Technique and Tactics, McGraw- Hill, Sydney, 1995